READ BEFORE POSTING - Status of Heists and apps (spoiler free)

This is an attempt to stop multiple threads and questions regarding the heists. Please read before posting something that may have already been covered. Current heists will remain spoiler free here with a link to the spoiler thread.

HEIST 0.5: The Hunt for Hubert - over

The hunt for Hubert began prior to the opening of MacHeist. It involved finding a curious little monkey named Hubert hidden in a trail of various websites, each one linking to the next.

This was intended as a buildup to MH and as a taste for those that were not initially invited to this wonderful world of heisting. The prize at the end was a copy of American History Lux which is still available via the first memo.

This heist is still possible to complete although not using all of the original steps.

Note: as of April '07, the heist memos are no longer viewable.____________________________________________________________________Prize: American History Lux

HEIST 1: Apple Internal Hack - over

The first official heist involved sneaking your way into the "Apple Internal" site and figuring out a way to get both pics and specs for the upcoming Apple iPhone. It began with an encoded message that gave you a free copy of the Notepad widget. Notepad is still available and a full translated spoiler can be found here.

The mini-heist between 1 and 2 involved the two MH rss feeds. Each feed had half of a complete message. The clues from this eventually led you to a code for the safe that got a free copy of QuickScale. For the full details check out the Mini-Heist thread.

The prize is no longer available.____________________________________________________________________Prizes: QuickScale(Notepad and American History Lux, if you didn't already have them)

The official backroom topic is Here____________________________________________________________________Prizes: Will be listed as links when I know it's over.

HEIST 3: Where's Lisa? - over

Starting off with some pictures that when translated led you on a merry chase Heist 3 was a great one. After pulsing numbers, going backwards (in more ways than one), and much more you get to see red in a brand new way. Now the rescue mission is on for the Directorate.

The official backroom topic is here.____________________________________________________________________Prizes: iPulse, DrawIt, $2.00 Discount

Gentle guide available here.____________________________________________________________________Prizes: Will be listed as links when I know it's over.

That's it for now. If you think I need to add something to this please PM or e-mail me. If you give me details (links to "official" threads or a synopsis similar to mine) I'll credit you in this post and you'll have my gratitude (not much I know but I can hope).

So far Nollid and shadownight have helped quite a bit with this when I've been too slow. Thanks a lot fellows!!!

@ Nollid07 - Hmm, where did Hubert start at? I don't remember and couldn't find it by searching. I see that you can still do it fully starting at whoishubert.com but from there it's only like 5 sites. I swear there was a lot more than that. A few other people have also said that the trail was broken.

Anyway, I don't want this turning into a Hubert discussion so if someone has the FULL list of following Hubert please PM me the info. If it's still completely doable I'll change the sticky.

@ Nollid07 - Hmm, where did Hubert start at? I don't remember and couldn't find it by searching. I see that you can still do it fully starting at whoishubert.com but from there it's only like 5 sites. I swear there was a lot more than that. A few other people have also said that the trail was broken.

oh.. I thought it started at whoishubert, but now that I think about it, you're right.

this is a very nicely organized list of the heists. i tried to see if i could login anonymously to ftp.whoishubert.com to see what there was there, and i got a 530 no anonymouss login error. but this means the server does exist, so if someone who really knows about this sort of thing could look into it...

this is a very nicely organized list of the heists. i tried to see if i could login anonymously to ftp.whoishubert.com to see what there was there, and i got a 530 no anonymouss login error. but this means the server does exist, so if someone who really knows about this sort of thing could look into it...

There are plenty of threads about the whoishubert site, but I doubt it'll be used in the future. Every heist has had it's own crop of new sites just for the week.

No one knows for sure what this is yet. To see what's been discovered so far check out the zotadmin thread (spoilers). UPDATE: Apparently the Hubert blogging thing is not directly related to MH. I'm still leaving this here for those that are interested until an official 2.5 is announced.

That's it for now. If you think I need to add something to this please mention it here.

Thanks Nollid, now that I've done the new one I'll go ahead and edit this a little more. I don't go to the backroom during heists so I can't really update 'til I'm done. If this happens again I'd appreciate you doing the same thing.

My impression was that the Hubert trail started at WhoIsHubert.com (to which you were led by TUAW) and wound it's way through a number of sites. The trail is still doable, though not in its original form.

Almost fully updated with a bit "better" format. I'll probably finish when I get back from the bar if another mod doesn't beat me to it. I'm pretty happy with the new look though.

I also changed it to say please PM or e-mail me if you'd like to contribute an update or a new heist. I'll credit you in the post if you include details (links to official threads and/or a synopsis like the ones I've done) so I don't have to look them up . That would be awesome.

Edit: Thanks for the info, I appreciate it. I'm editing this post to take out the spoiler. Since the title says spoiler free I need to keep it that way. If you want to it would be awesome if you could just e-mail or PM me things like this in the future. Thanks again for the correction.- Ænima

Hey folks, I deleted a few posts in this thread and edited a couple others. If you have questions about ongoing heists please ask them in a different thread. This one specifically says spoiler free and I want to keep it that way. Hope no one is upset if I deleted one of their posts. I greatly appreciate the interest everyone has shown here.

If you have some info to add that I'm missing please e-mail or PM me if possible. I would greatly appreciate it. Posting the info here may be a spoiler depending on what you say and I might have to delete or edit it (see the post above this one for an example).

Thanks for the help here. I've got 17 apps after completing various heists. Actually, I have apps that number up to 17. What is curious is I don't have app #9, which I read elsewhere is Alarm Clock Pro. Anyone know why I don't have that one? I have every other numbered app up to 17.... (which means I've done all the major heists through #5 and I believe all the official mini ones as of December 10th)

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